The Bruins will not face any bonus overages for next season, WEEI.com learned recently. In the recently concluded season, the B’s had to pay $969,000 against their cap for their 2014-15 overages. The season before, they had to pay $4.75 million in overages because of bonuses achieved mostly by Jerome Iginla.

The Penguins are Stanley Cup champions after a series-clinching 3-1 victory in Game 6 vs. the Sharks. In winning the Cup, the Penguins became the first team from the Eastern Conference to do so since the Bruins in 2011.

Former Bruin Phil Kessel did not win the Conn Smythe, as Sidney Crosby was the recipient of the playoff MVP award. Kessel led the Penguins in postseason goals (10) and points (22).

The Sharks falling in the Final means that their first-round pick, which the Bruins have from last summer’s Martin Jones trade, will be 29th overall. Boston’s own first-rounder is 14th overall.

Marc Savard’s contract has been traded again, as the Panthers flipped it to the Devils along with a second-round pick in 2018 for forwards Paul Thompson and Graham Black.

The value of Savard’s contract to a team is that they can use his $4.027 million cap hit to help them reach the cap floor next season while only paying him a $575,000 salary. Savard, who has not played since 2011 due to concussions, has only one year left on a contract that paid him $25.5 million in salary over the deal’s first four seasons but had a lesser cap hit due to significantly lower salaries ($1.5 million, $575,000, $575,000) in its final three seasons.

The Bruins initially shipped Savard’s contract to Florida last summer along with Reilly Smith in exchange for the rights to then-restricted free agent Jimmy Hayes.

LaCouture, 39, allegedly hid under the woman’s vehicle Saturday while his friend had a discussion with her in her driveway, then emerged and struck the woman in the collarbone. The victim later discovered that the windows on her GMC Yukon were smashed, and a large rock was on the driver’s seat.

Police were called to the Centerville home just after 6 p.m., and they met with LaCouture and the woman. LaCouture was arrested and charged with one count of assault and battery and two counts of vandalizing property.

LaCouture is due back in Barnstable court July 15 for a pretrial hearing.

LaCouture played in the NHL from 1998 until 2009, including a 55-game stint with the Bruins during the 2005-06 season. He is one of six former players who filed a class-action lawsuit accusing the NHL of exploiting players by encouraging violence and failing to warn the players about the risks of head injuries. According to federal court documents, LaCouture participated in 52 fights and had about 20 concussions, and he now has symptoms consistent with chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

A former Natick High School star who played one season at Boston University, LaCouture was a first-round draft pick of the Islanders in 1996. He recorded 20 goals, 25 assists and 348 penalty minutes in 337 career games with the Oilers, Penguins, Rangers, Bruins, Devils and Hurricanes.

According to a report out of Russia (non-Russian-speakers: Hit the translate button on your browser), Bruins 2011 second-round pick Alexander Khokhlachev will sign with SKA St. Petersburg of the KHL next month.

Khokhlachev, who is still 22 and had 70 points (23 goals, 47 assists) in 63 games for Providence last season, vented his frustrations with the Bruins organization during training camp prior to this season. The Russian center has played in just nine NHL games, registering no points. The B’s will retain his rights until he’s 27 in the event that Khokhlachev returns to the NHL.

Khokhlachev is the second player to leave the Bruins’ organization for the KHL this offseason, as center Joonas Kemppainen signed with Sibiu Novosibirsk earlier this month.

This probably should have been written before the series started, but I didn’t think of it until now. As such, I started writing it during the national anthem of Game 1 and here it is.

These days, advanced metrics, GIFs, line-matching data and more are available to help inform the opinions of sports fans, media and even coaches.

Yet because a lot of people grew up without these things, it’s still relatively common for them to go ignored out of either laziness or one’s desire to share a very forced opinion, or what the internet unflatteringly calls a “hot take.”

You hear takes every day, many of which are horrifyingly dumb: Shea Weber deserves a Norris because he’s never won one, one-time 20-goal-scorer Matt Beleskey is better than two-time 30-goal-scorer Loui Eriksson, the Blues lost because of Vladimir Tarasenko, John Farrell moving Jackie Bradley Jr. up in the lineup killed his hit streak, etc.

Many Bruins followers are torn as to whom they should root for in the Stanley Cup Final between the Sharks and Penguins. Either way, they’ll see a big-name former Bruin who receives a laughable lack of credit for their career end up winning. From there, it’s tougher to decide, so it’s worth it to consider which scenario will bring about the dumbest takes and pick against that one. Here are some of them:

IF THE SHARKS WIN

— Firing the coach is the way to go. Always fire the coach. Call it “parting ways” if need be, but get him out of there. And get the “C” off whoever the hell your captain is. These are proven ways of winning the Stanley Cup.

[By the way, as of the first period, Jones had allowed as many goals in one period as Rask did in 14 periods against the Penguins in the 2013 Eastern Conference finals. Jones obviously had a better year, albeit with a far better team and against far fewer high-danger chances.]

— It is technically true that Joe Thornton did not thrive under Claude Julien during his time in Boston, and now he’s off winning the Stanley Cup. Just another reason as to why Julien should be canned.